Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pressing the flesh with small businessmen and middle-level party workers does not come easily to the high-powered Connally. He usually arranges to keep his visits short, even if that requires chartering a jet back to Houston following a late-evening speech. Sometimes, though, there is just no way. Last week after an appearance in Grand Rapids, Connally plaintively asked an aide: "We've definitely got to stay here tonight, haven't we?" The answer...
...consumers. She started her newspaper career as a women's reporter for the Columbus Citizen (now Citizen-Journal), and joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for her pithy writing style, and often tartly exposes the foibles of the jet set. Her scrapbook includes a satiric report on a meeting of high-powered feminists that was thrown into an uproar when one of the participants decided to go topless, and a story on Willie Morris' fall from the editorship of Harper's that brilliantly exposed the machinations...
Consider this nonsensical scene: A beautiful nervous rich woman who is being blackmailed seeks out a thin junior executive (or so he looks) at a jet-setters' party. "Oh, I'm so glad you're here, Mr. Mason. Now, I don't expect you to understand all this at once, but I--oh, I'm so confused--I..." The man, Monte Markham, seems to agree that he is Perry Mason...
...that it might depress ticket sales. Houston got ready for this week's show-biz spectacular in the Astrodome−the tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. In Pittsburgh, 51,860 people, some after enduring a twelve-mile-long traffic jam, toured the first jumbo jet to land at the municipal airport...
...says "Yes, sir" to hotel clerks, picks litter off the sidewalk, and neither drinks nor smokes. As for his music, says Mary Travers, late of Peter, Paul and Mary, the group that had a Top Ten hit in 1969 with Denver's Leaving on a Jet Plane: "His songs are simple and hopeful. He is a very personal, conversational singer, and he has a gee-whizzy kind of humor-which is refreshing...